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Colonoscopic Polypectomy

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In the past three decades, flexible colonoscopy has proven to be the best tool available for the detection of both colonic polyps and cancer. The colonoscope provides not only superior diagnostic accuracy for detecting and obtaining biopsies of colonic luminal lesions, but also, in the case of polyps, the potential for simultaneous minimally invasive definitive therapy as polypectomy (Tolliver and Rex 2008).

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  1. Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Peter H. Rubin M.D.

  2. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA

    Jerome D. Waye M.D., FACP

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  1. University of Connecticut School of Medi, Farmington Ave. 236, Farmington, 06030-1845, Connecticut, USA

    George Y. Wu

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    Subbaramiah Sridhar

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Rubin, P.H., Waye, J.D. (2011). Colonoscopic Polypectomy. In: Wu, G., Sridhar, S. (eds) Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures in Gastroenterology. Clinical Gastroenterology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-044-7_18

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